Yes, but surely he would then get a tail wind when going in the other direction to cancel it out? The track is effectively a figure of 8 drawn by a 4 year old!
I did see Sebastian blow the dashboard quite a lot........that has to be at least 1 point in front downforce!!!!!!
Well tbf it was damp at best. He didnt even have his window wipers on the whole time. Webber's was properly wet I'm not suprised at all that he went top. But I think that he should have been quicker. Barrichello is only 0.3 slower when he's fat and old (barring the fat part). I think it was his racing suit which gives him his advantage...
It all the car, nothing to do with Seb's skill It was a very clean lap though and I didn't see him cut any corners apart from the last two.
If we are allowing for weight, would that mean Mansell could have done a 1min 40s if all the cars weighed the same!? His arse and ego alone weigh at least an extra 50kg over th rest!
Why have you got a picture of sebastian vettel as your avatar, yet you seem to be a mclaren fan? Don't mean to be rude, just a bit confused.
Downforce hinders any averagely priced road car, since it increases drag by precisely the same amount. But a tail-wind is a headwind and vice-versa on any circuit and has no over all effect on the lap time of a road car. What can have an effect is a strong cross-wind, particularly on a circuit such as Paul-Ricard in southern France, which has a long and narrow layout (where the cross-wind is only very briefly a tail or head-wind) and can suffer from a southerly or northerly wind, but a predominant head/tail-wind necessarily cancels itself out.
Also, in the south of france they have a ridiculously strong wind, i think it's called the mistral, i'm not sure.
This is correct, Cowboy - and it is why I mentioned Paul-Ricard which has a long skinny east-west layout, meaning that the mistral coming up from Africa to the south can make things pretty tricky by affecting downforce levels in both directions. That said, it would have negligible effect on any road car, particularly the Top-Gear runabout thing. What the hell is that anyway?!!!
